Rubber plantation and its relationship with topographical factors in the border region of China, Laos and Myanmar

Liu, Xiaona; Zhu, Feng; Jiang, Longfei; Li, Peng; Liao, Chenhua; Yang, Yanzhao; Zhou, You

doi:10.1007/s11442-013-1060-4

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“…This phenomenon was similar to the expansion features in Xishuangbanna, China [37,46]. Economic interests and national policies were the primary causes of rubber expansion [10,16,32,[45][46][47]. Swidden land was mainly located in northern mountainous areas, where the obvious expansion indicated human activities have frequently impacted slashing and burning cultivation in the recent decade [33,48].…”

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confidence: 60%

“…The results indicated that the period of swidden farming was shortened and changed into the permanent farming gradually. Changes in swidden land were consistent with national policies about encouragement of economic plantation development, implementation of natural forest protection, and prohibition on slash-and-burn farming [10,44,45].…”

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confidence: 71%

“…Meanwhile, as the frontier region adjacent to the border to China in Laos, land use and land cover will greatly be affected by Chinese border agricultural policies, especially rubber plantation expansion [10,47]. Investments from China, Vietnam, Thailand, etc.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Laos is devoted to becoming an important exporter of natural rubber in 2020 [50]. Furthermore, with the "Opium Poppy Substitution Planting" (OPSP) being an important filing of cooperation in the neighboring countries of the "Golden Triangle," vital projects supported by national and international organizations and more frequent economic exchanges after the establishment of China-ASEAN Free Trade Area, there is no doubt that land use and land cover will be changed more extensively and dramatically, especially in rubber plantation [10,32]. More attention should be paid to growing potential evaluation of rubber plantations in the border region of China, Laos, and Myanmar.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This region has a tropical monsoon climate, with an annual mean temperature of 25.75 °C and an annual average precipitation of 1500 mm. In general, the rainy season is from May to October, which accounts for more than 80% of the annual precipitation, while the dry season is from November to April along with slash-and-burn farming activities [10]. Forest resources are abundant in this province.…”

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confidence: 97%

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Spatial-temporal changes of land use and land cover in Luang Namtha Province in northern part of Laos was analyzed using Landsat TM (Thematic Mapper)/ETM+ (Enhanced Thematic Mapper) images from 1990 to 2010 since the opening of the Boten border adjacent to China. The results showed that: (1) "forest land-cultivated land-grassland" was the primary landscape structure. Woodland was the major land cover type, while paddy field was the dominant land use type replaced by rubber plantation in 2010; (2) since the opening of the border crossings in 1994, the rate and intensity of land use change were accelerated and enhanced gradually, especially in the recent decade. Woodland decreased significantly, while shrubland, rubber plantation and swidden land increased obviously. Rubber plantation and swidden land showed the fastest growth derived from woodland and shrubland, indicating continuous human activities and slash-and-burn farming; and (3) during 1990-2010, swidden land was mainly located in northern mountainous areas with frequently increased changing spatial distribution in the recent decade. Rubber plantation was mainly distributed in the border region of China and Laos with the expansion from the border region into the non-frontier of Laos with Luang Namtha City as the center. Woodland reduction was so obvious along the Kunming-Bangkok highway.Keywords: rubber plantation; land use and land cover change (LUCC); spatial-temporal pattern; swidden land; the border region of Laos and China

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Land use/land cover change (LUCC) in tropical areas threatens biodiversity and protected area integrity and then affects global ecosystem functions and services. In this study, the spatiotemporal patterns and processes of LUCC in Mengla County, Xishuangbanna, which is located on the northern edge of tropical Asia, were examined using a modified post-classification change detection technique based on random forest classifiers and Landsat images acquired at a 5-year time interval (e.g., 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, and 2014) from 1994 to 2014, with a special focus on protected areas and their surroundings. The overall accuracies of land use/land cover classification reached 90.13-97.90%, with kappa coefficients of 0.84-0.96. Massive but decelerating conversion from forests to artificial plantations has occurred in recent decades. From 1994 to 2014, the area of plantations increased by 1833.85 km, whereas that of forests decreased by 1942.67 km. The expanded areas of artificial plantations decreased from 158.41 km per year in 1994-1999 to 59.70 km per year in 2009-2014. More considerable transformation from forests to artificial plantations occurred in lowland areas with elevations below 1000 m and at the edges of National Nature Reserves, which observed a forest loss rate of greater than 40% between 1994 and 2014. This poses serious challenges for sustaining both protected areas and surrounding human communities and to solve the increasingly escalating human-elephant conflicts. The complex food, biodiversity, and land use nexus in this region remain to be untangled in future study.

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Rubber plantation and its relationship with topographical factors in the border region of China, Laos and Myanmar

Cited by 88 publications

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Rubber Plantation Expansion Related Land Use Change along the Laos-China Border Region

Rubber Plantation Expansion Related Land Use Change along the Laos-China Border Region

The primate extinction crisis in China: immediate challenges and a way forward

Land use/land cover change and its impacts on protected areas in Mengla County, Xishuangbanna, Southwest China

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